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Booktrust says it is “very disappointed” that the Northern
Ireland government has cut its Bookstart funding.
The charity said 50,000 children “face disappointment” this
year because of the cuts. Last year, it distributed 50,000 packs,
containing two books for babies and pre-school children, in the country,
funded by a £250,000 grant from Northern Ireland’s Department of Education.
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Canongate has created a spin-off company to further develop
its Letters Live series of events.
Five shows, which will feature actors Benedict Cumberbatch and
Louise Brealey, will run at the Freemasons’ Hall from 31st March to 4th
April 2015. The live events will celebrate the “enduring power of literary
correspondence”, and will support the literacy charities The Reading
Agency, First Story, and Ministry of Stories.
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Authors should be paid for festival appearances, writers have
told The Bookseller,
because “authors are professional and deserve professional treatment”.
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In a two-way partnership announced today (Monday 9th
March), Shanghai-based Tencent Literature and Boston-based Trajectory, Inc., have
agreed to a major import and export programme of Chinese and
English-language e-books.
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Two novels and four non-fiction books will compete for the
Wellcome Book Prize 2015, with the shortlist split equally between
independent and major publishers.
The list for the £30,000 prize, which celebrates the best
books engaging with medicine, health or illness, was announced today by
author and chair of the 2015 judges Bill Bryson.
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Blatant derivatives of best-selling manga, hitherto tolerated
by publishers in Japan, face extinction because of TPP rules, say fans and
creators.
Manga readers have taken to Twitter to express their alarm
over leaks of the secretive, multinational trade agreement The
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) that threatens to extend restrictive
intellectual property (IP) laws in the region.
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Simon & Schuster has acquired a new poetry anthology based
on poems which make women cry, to be edited by father and son team Anthony
and Ben Holden.
The Holdens’ first collaboration, Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, published
by Simon & Schuster in April last year, became the highest-selling
poetry book of 2015, netting nearly 15,000 hardcover copies.
The new book will stand as a companion volume with 100 eminent women from
all walks of life invited to introduce and choose the poems that moved them
to tears.
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Two books from Penguin Random House have made the shortlist
for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize.
The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA and the Battle over a
Forbidden Book by Peter Finn and Petra Couvée (Harvill Secker) has made the
shortlist, alongside Stalin
Volume I: Paradoxes of power, 1878-1928 by Stephen Kotkin
(Penguin Press).
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Science writer Simon Singh is among those who have backed the
Libel Reform Campaign for reform of libel laws in Northern Ireland.
In a survey conducted to support the work of the Northern Ireland
Law Commission, the campaign found “overwhelming support for the full
adoption of the Defamation Act 2013 to reform Northern Ireland’s antiquated
law of libel, which fails to protect writers, academics and scientists who
speak out and criticise the rich and powerful”.
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Hodder & Stoughton is relaunching the website for its
science fiction, fantasy and horror community Hodderscape today (9th
March), and hold its first open submission period later this year.
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Cambridge University Press (CUP) is issuing the fourth edition
of the multimillion-selling Essential
Grammar in Use by Raymond Murphy to mark the book’s 25th
anniversary (April, £20).
First published in 1990, the book is the elementary companion
to Murphy’s intermediate guide, English
Grammar in Use, which was first published in 1985. Since
Nielsen BookScan records began in 1998, the two titles have been worth
£9.4m to UK booksellers across various editions. CUP’s records, via Cognos
software, record sales of more than 30 million copies worldwide.
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Bloomsbury Academic has published a bibliography of J K
Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, by Sotheby’s director for
children’s books Philip Errington.
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